FOUNDATION STUDIES DEPARTMENT

Semester II - 2022-23
Unit 1- Sociology – Are first impressions accurate?
Listening 1 – The Psychology of First Impressions

Student Name: Student ID:

Date: Teacher’s remark:

Listen to a lecture about first impressions and do the following exercises.

A. Read the statements. Write T (true) or F (false). Then correct the false statement
to make it true.
T/F Correction
1 First impressions tell the whole story. only part of
2 If a person is happy when we first meet her, we will often think
That she is happy all the time.
3 Our first impressions give us an accurate picture of the whole
person.
4 We judge other people’s behavior differently from our own.

B. Circle the answer or answers that best complete the following statements.

1. People __________ what they see in a first encounter.

a. often make mistakes about
b. make sense of information from
c. form very accurate impressions from

2. People assume that their first impressions tell them about ________ person.
a. a sample of a
b. most of a
c. the whole

3. When we see a person happy in the first meeting, we will think she is also
________.
a. friendly
b. boring
c. kind
 4. If someone else does something negative, we think ________.
a. it is because of his personality
b. he is a bad person
c. it is because of how he felt that day

5. If we do something negative, we think it is because of _______.

a. our personality
b. the situation
c. someone else

Vocabulary

C. Complete each sentence with the correct word or phrases given in the box.
There is one extra word.

behavior encounter sample form an impression assume errors

1. My first ______________ with my neighbor was very unpleasant. We had an

argument about the noise from their house.
2. Fatma said she wasn’t feeling well, so I __________ she isn’t going out
tonight.
3. It only takes a few minutes to ___________________________ of someone
you meet for the first time.
4. Ali made several ___________ on his math test because he didn’t study hard
enough.
5. I took a ___________ of the carpet home to see whether I liked the color in
my living room.
Answer key
A–2 T
3 F (incomplete)
4 T

B–1 a
2 c
3 a
4 b
5 b

C–1 encounter
2 assume
3 form an impression
4 errors
5 sample